** Note: To make the database smaller and more responsive online, 121,087 cases related to
three events in 2017 are not individually listed online because the information
related to those cases is identical. Those events are: 1) The
posthumous pardoning of 49,000 men in England and Wales
convicted of consensual homosexual related acts committed prior to 1967
that are no longer considered criminal; 2) The legal vindication of
50,000 men in Germany – 45,000 posthumously and 5,000 still living –
convicted of consensual homosexual related acts between 1945 and 1994
that are no longer considered criminal; and, 3) 21,687 people
were exonerated as a result of the Annie Dookhan drug evidence scandal at the Hinton State
Laboratory in Massachusetts.

MapsPlace
your mouse pointer over a colored area for the name and number of
exonerations.Click on the + (plus) button to increase
the detail, or the - (minus) button to decrease the detail.Click on the double arrows to make the map
full-screen.

The Innocents Database includes persons whose presumption of innocence
was restored after their conviction was overturned on direct appeal or
post-conviction appeal and they were not retried, persons acquitted
after a retrial, and persons granted an executive or legislative pardon
based on evidence of their innocence. The sources of information
include official court reports, books, and newspaper and magazine
articles. Each person's record in the database includes one or more
sources for the information about the person's case. For a detailed
explanation of the cases included in the Innocents Database see the
article "An Exoneration Can Be Judicial Or By Executive Or Legislative
Clemency," online at, www.justicedenied.org/wordpress/archives/2811.

NOTICE: The Innocents Database is made available to the public on the
Internet for education, research, and other non-commercial purposes
with the proviso that credit is given to the Innocents Database as the
source of information used. A commercial use is not permitted without
receiving permission. Reasonable effort is made to ensure the accuracy
of the information in the database, but no express or implied warranty
is made, and by using the Innocents Database the user agrees to hold
Hans Sherrer, The Justice Institute and Justice Denied harmless from
any legal liability for any use whatsoever, including non-commercial or
commercial uses of the database.

Hans Sherrer, whose website is forejustice.org,
created the Innocents Database in 1997 and continues to maintain it.
The database is linked to: Justice Denied's
website as a courtesy to supplement Justice Denied's activities on
behalf of the wrongly convicted world-wide.